Task Force on Social Networking Software

The New York Times recently picked the brains of “successful bloggers with successful nonblogging careers” for tips on the ‘business of blogging‘. Advice includes the usual admonitions: don’t expect to get rich, be yourself, deal with your life, then your blog, market yourself, and of course, be willing to participate in the community.

It’s nice to see the NYT following it’s own guidance by linking to a Blogrunner page for the article. Blogrunner is “a service from The New York Times that automatically monitors news articles and blog posts and tracks news events as they develop across the Web.” It’s similar to Technorati, another aggregation service which tracks blog activity, linking and relevance, except that where Technorati tracks the entire Web, Blogrunner only tracks link activity to NYT articles.

Click here to see how other bloggers (successful & unrenowned alike) weigh in on what it takes to be a blogging star, and if they even want to.

The Baltimore Health Sciences & Human Services Library is holding a Social Networking Symposium - April 10, 2008 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM.  Wow, this symposium looks great for librarians and anyone involved in Higher Ed or health care.   Here’s a snip it of the program.

Morning program:

• Social Networking in a Clinical Environment
• YouTube and Universities: Using online video to tell your story
• Using Social Networking for Learning

Afternoon program:

• Privacy in a 2.0 World
• The 411 of Social Networking Sites - Students’ Privacy
• Social Learning Using Cell Phone Technology
• Workshop - Online Social Networking Services 101
• Workshop - Blogging/RSS
• Workshop - Flickr
• iTunes U and Your U
• Walkable Web 2.0 - Place-based training with 3D social tools
• Workshop - Collaborative Workspaces

What a great idea to bring this discussion into the library.  Learn more at their Web site.  Did I mention it’s free?

Bart

You can view a Charlie Rose interview with Chris Anderson about the Long Tail.  Chris Anderson coined the phrase “Long Tail” and works for Wired magazine.  It is an interesting conversation about where the Internet is headed and has implications for Web 2.0.

View the Interview.

Bart